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The U.S. Air Force receives a $5.9 billion procurement boost in fiscal 2023—just behind the U.S. Navy’s $6.5 billion increase—in the defense portion of the fiscal 2023 omnibus appropriations bill. […]

Epirus on Tuesday named Ken Bedingfield as its new CEO, succeeding Leigh Madden, who led the company for nearly three years. Bedingfield joined Epirus in June 2020 as chief operating […]

The Atlanta-based Hermeus Corp. said on Dec. 20 that it chose Raytheon Technologies [RTX] Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan, which powers F-15 and F-16 fighters, as the turbine component of […]

Lithuania has officially signed a $495 million deal with the U.S. that covers procurement of eight Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), the Lithuanian Ministry of […]

The future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125), the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, finished builder’s trials on Dec. 15, the Navy said on Monday. Builder’s sea trials […]

The U.S. Air Force has grounded its fleet of 20 Northrop Grumman [NOC] B-2 Spirit stealth bombers after a Dec. 10 emergency landing of one of the aircraft at Whiteman […]

In keeping with direction from Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, the U.S. Space Force’s Space Delta 11 unit plans to scale up training in the next several years […]

The U.S. House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics introduced legislation on Wednesday that would establish a civil space situational awareness (SSA) capability under the Department of Commerce. Currently, the U.S. Department […]

The U.S. 5th Fleet completed the Digital Horizon three-week unmanned and artificial intelligence exercise event in Bahrain on Dec. 15.  The event started on Nov. 23 with 15 unmanned systems […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is beginning the move toward requiring the security equipment it buys to have standard interfaces to enable third party software applications be added to the […]